Alicia Keys
Biog
Alicia Keys helped redefine the term "overnight sensation" when her 2001 debut
effort, Songs in A Minor, sold more than 50,000 copies during its first day of
release. Mixing R&B songcraft with a sultry dose of neo-soul, the album went on
to move more than ten million units worldwide, officially establishing the young
Alicia Keys (who was only 19 during the recording process) as an international
star. Although she shared the charts with such R&B contemporaries as
Destiny's Child,
Keys' talents distinguished her as a different sort of diva, one who played a
variety of instruments and penned the vast majority of her songs without outside
help. The Diary of Alicia Keys solidified her popularity two years later, and
Alicia Keys spent the rest of the decade refining her now-signature sound.
Alicia Augello Cook was born in Harlem in early 1981. Raised by her
Italian-American mother, she enrolled in classical piano lessons at the age of
seven and began writing songs four years later. An education at the Professional
Performance Arts School helped hone her vocal skills, and Alicia graduated at
the age of 16 as the class valedictorian. Two Columbia’s loomed on the immediate
horizon: Columbia University and Columbia Records, both of whom had extended
offers to the talented student/musician. Although she attempted to make both
options work, Alicia found it difficult to juggle the two commitments and chose
to focus exclusively on her music career. Assuming the stage name of Alicia
Keys, she began to work with Columbia and contributed a song to the
Men in Black
soundtrack, but disputes with the label resulted in her contract's termination.
Keys bounced back by aligning herself with
Clive Davis,
the president of Arista Records, but work on her debut album stalled when
Davis
was ousted from the company in 2000.
Davis
soon formed his own label, J Records, and welcomed Keys back into the fold with
an aggressive publicity campaign (including an influential appearance on the
Oprah Winfrey
show). Songs in A Minor was then released in June 2001 and debuted at the top of
the charts, eventually netting five Grammys and platinum certifications in ten
different countries. Released in 2003, The Diary of Alicia Keys enjoyed similar
Grammy-certified success, and Keys released a book of poetry the following year.
A live
CD/DVD
package,
Unplugged,
arrived in 2005 and followed Keys' two previous releases to the top of the
charts, even if it failed to win any of the four Grammys for which it was
nominated. Alicia Keys then entered the acting world, starring in both Smoking'
Aces and The Nanny Diaries in 2007, before issuing the pop-influenced
As I Am
later that year
Hits:
‘No one’: Video:
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Germany Tour Dates:
18.10.2008 Berlin - O2 World
19.10.2008 München - Olympiahalle
22.10.2008 Oberhausen - König-Pilsener-Arena
23.10.2008 Mannheim - SAP Arena
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